Author: Daniel Barber

Daniel Barber is a teacher, trainer and writer based in Cádiz, Spain. He's taught classes of all types and ages over more than twenty years as well as tutoring and directing Trinity TESOL courses and managing his own school. He is an author for National Geographic Learning's secondary series Perspectives , Look, a series for young learners of English and, most recently, Voices. His interests include motivation in learning, coaching approaches to teaching English and the science of learning and the brain.

Teaching Social Issues with the SDGs

17 August 2023 Daniel Barber Academic Skills, Content-Based Literacy and Language, Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

I’d like to start this final post in this Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) blog series with an explanation. Despite the distinction we’re making between environmental SDGs, such as number 13 – Climate action – and social SDGs, like number 1 – No poverty – you will have realized that the

How to ‘go green’ in your classes with the SDGs

23 June 2023 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

So far in this series, we’ve examined the connection between English teaching and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and how projects can be leveraged to let learners explore the SDGs for themselves. In this post, we focus on the SDGs that concern the climate and biodiversity crises, such as SDG 7

Exploring the SDGs Through Project Work

1 May 2023 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

In the first post in this series, we looked at why we should promote the United Nation’s SDGS – Sustainable Development Goals – with our English learners. This post turns to the how, specifically, in the shape of projects. If your teaching normally consists of individual lessons from a course,

The SDGs and English Language Teaching

27 March 2023 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners 2 comments

Eight years ago, the United Nations set an ambitious agenda for change on a global scale: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals aim to create a sustainable and equitable future for all, addressing issues related to wealth, health, education, work, justice, sustainability, and protection for the natural world.

Interview: Dan Barber on Using TED Talks in the ELT Classroom

Interview: Dan Barber on Why to Use TED Talks in your ELT Classroom

24 May 2017 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults 2 comments

Listen to our interview with Dan Barber talking about how TED Talks really do make good English lessons and download Dan’s FREE lesson plan around Rana el Kaliouby’s TED Talk on an app that can read your emotions! Have you read Dan’s article here?

Six Reasons TED Talks Make Great English Lessons

24 May 2017 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults 3 comments

TED became popular around the same time as Twitter, so it may come as a surprise to the millions of enthusiastic fans to meet people who haven’t heard of it. TED Talks aren’t quite as ubiquitous as funny-cat videos but they provide an intelligent balance to that more frivolous side